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From: CJC@psuvm.BITNET
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Last Night
Message-ID: <1850CJC@psuvm>
Date: Wed, 12-Jun-85 17:50:56 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 12 17:50:56 1985
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>I respectfully submit that the sub-humanoid males who harass women
>are not deterred by anger.  You object (quite naturally) to their behavior.
>     (some lines later)
>Blasting away at scuzzolas just wastes ammo, in my opinion, and if you want
>to avoid trouble with ethical issues (or the law), perhaps something a bit
>less lethal, and more smelly, would be in order.  How about a high-pressure
>cannister of Eau de Skunk?  :-)
>
   I like it, I like it, I like it!!
Seriously, it's worked well for the skunk (which is a placid peaceful little
creature except when attacked). A spray container of concentrated essence of
skunk could be quite small (the skunk's apparatus is), and a spray would
surely discourage any but the most deranged attacker, also the attacker would
be marked for later identification (our dog tangled with a skunk *once*, it's
*hard* to get off). However I've never heard that skunk oil is in any way
dangerous to people so it could be used even in borderline cases. Has this
ever been seriously studied? If so what were the disadvantages?
  Note - I am *not* proposing collecting the essence from real skunks - I
like them. Just synthetic stuff.
     
                                         --Carolyn J. Clark
     
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